The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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Deasy to Board: Your Wish List Could Cost $1.4 Billion
LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy will tell the LAUSD School Board on Tuesday that its wish list for new hires and other programs will cost the district up to $1.4 billion at a time the district is still facing a deficit of $350 million. The board asked Deasy in June to develop spending proposals that...
By Hillel Aron | August 19, 2013
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Morning Read: Vladovic To Put New Vision on Display
L.A. Unified President Pushes Board’s Authority to Set Policy The new president of the Los Angeles Unified school board is moving aggressively to reshape the panel’s operation and mission, including plans to improve communication, enhance collaboration and take a more decisive stance in setting district policy. Richard Vladovic of San Pedro will lay out his...
By LA School Report | August 19, 2013
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Latest UTLA Survey Takes Aim at Common Core Readiness*
The teachers union is asking members to take yet another online survey — this one focusing on efforts by LA Unified to acclimate teachers to the challenges of the new Common Core curriculum. The introduction to the survey appears to reflect skepticism by union leadership about how the district is going about it, questioning why...
By Hillel Aron | August 16, 2013
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Board Preview: Deasy Will Present Hiring Options and Their Cost
When the LA Unified Board of Education meets on Tuesday, the first gathering time since the summer break, Superintendent John Deasy and his staff will present options for hiring more teachers, counselors and other employees — complete with price tags. “We will present for the board’s information the cost, for the year, of the some...
By Hillel Aron | August 16, 2013
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Perspectives on Teaching from Some of the Nation’s Best
Today, little is known collectively about the opinions and experiences of top performing teachers because researchers rarely focus specifically on them. Here’s a new study that does. The Perspectives of Irreplaceable Teachers from TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) is a detailed survey of responses from 117 of America’s best teachers, as the report describes...
By LA School Report | August 16, 2013
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Morning Read: Was California’s Wavier a Federal Overreach?
Critics Blast Away at California Districts’ Waiver By awarding a No Child Left Behind Act waiver to eight California districts, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has embarked on an experiment that redefines the federal role in school accountability—and that is sparking criticism from across the political spectrum and questions about whether the new flexibility goes...
By LA School Report | August 16, 2013
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Slideshow: Deasy’s Cafeteria Shift
The SEIU local 99, which represents classified LAUSD employees, such as bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians and teaching assistants, invited Superintendent John Deasy to spend a shift “walking in their shoes” — or in their hairnets, as it were. Deasy spent the early Wednesday yesterday preparing and serving food at Esteban Torres High School in East Los...
By Hillel Aron | August 15, 2013
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Curious About the New Common Core Test? Practice Here
As California educators prepare for the seismic challenge of ushering in the new curriculum known as the Common Core State Standards, much of the worry has centered on student assessment. Legislators are debating whether to suspend the traditional California Standards Tests while students and teachers adjust to the massive shift in approach and material in...
By LA School Report | August 15, 2013
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The Soldier, the Parents and a ‘New’ Weigand Elementary
“Once we parents got united,” said Gloria Aroche, 24, a mother from El Salvador, who wears snap-button cowboy shirts and floor-length skirts with ruffles, “we lost our fear and felt the power. Felt it. Like a warm thing inside you.” LA Weekly this week has the remarkable story of how parents with help from a Special Forces hero...
By LA School Report | August 15, 2013
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Morning Read: School Starts — Without Some of Those iPads
No iPads on First Day of Classes For Students in LA Unified The district said in would supply tablets to all students and teachers at 47 schools by August, records show. But on the first day of school Tuesday, seven schools that spoke to KPCC said they didn’t have the tablets for their students yet...
By LA School Report | August 15, 2013